All ye schmucks can say what you will but when it comes to dishing out the worst possible food, you just can’t beat these New Jersey shitholes like Sankalp South Plainfield masquerading as Indian restaurants. Completely clueless in the kitchen, utterly hopeless in the service department and totally remorseless in their overall attitude, most Indian […]
SI: What about our Masala Chai? Desi Waitress: Very Sorry Sir, I told the cook Masala Chai but he made Masala French Fry! SI: What! (Sotto Voce: Goddamn Jesus ‘Mother F*cking’ Christ. Is your kitchen staffed with baboons who can’t even understand another desi?) White Waitress (in a pleading voice): Sir, would you like to […]
Run from the South Indian Impostor (File photo) In our ceaseless, unrelenting quest for a good Dosa, we’ve been known to haunt the major highways and small bylanes of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia in an obsessive-compulsive-ferocious frenzy. Kinda like Dr. Hunter ‘Gonzo’ Thompson searching for the American Dream in Las Vegas. […]
Much has been written about NYC’s burgers and shakes place Shake Shack over the years, enough to fill multiple tomes. We had held off going to the older Shake Shack location in Madison Square Park primarily because of the long lines there. But when a new Shake Shack outpost recently opened in the Theater District […]
Poor Rakesh Aggarwal could soon become Poorer Rakesh Aggarwal. Poorer? Yes, after all, the owner of the Baluchi’s Indian restaurant chain in New York City might now have to fork out close to a million dollars ($967,000 to be precise) in a proposed legal settlement with some of his current and former employees. Our heart […]
You bet we did. 😉 After an odious meal at an Indian restaurant in Long Island the other day, we were in such a foul temper that we stopped at the Ganesh Temple in Flushing, New York for some benediction. Oh no, not divine benediction for the soul but for a palliative for our miserable […]